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What's the catch with Motorola Edge 30 Neo? (www.phonearena.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's actually compact, cheap, has oled, in-screen fingerprint reader, stock Android, NFC, Snapdragon SOC, supports GSI and has unlockable bootloader. Seems like a perfect phone (well except nonexpandable storage), so what's the catch?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it support custom ROMs? I go4 a Motorola g73, perfect phone, except there's not a single custom ROM that supports it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Supposedly so; apparently it supports Project Treble, so you can technically flash any GSI on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All Android phones support Treble if they have Google services, right?

I haven't used a GSI before. How are they? What's the difference between a GSI and a custom ROM?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

All Android phones support Treble if they have Google services, right?

I don't think so, though I'm not sure.

I haven’t used a GSI before. How are they?

Neither have I; I'm only relaying what I read online about the device in question.

What’s the difference between a GSI and a custom ROM?

The difference is that GSI is device-agnostic, because all required drivers are on the device and stay there between flashes. ROM have to be device-specific as they have to include drivers. My understanding is GSI compatibility is merely dictated by up-to-date kernel.